Originally Posted by
Texas_Dawg
I've been all over Israel. Some cool places. Tel Aviv has a nice airport.
Israel is a Socialistic state of only 6 million people. America is a slightly less Socialistic state of 300 million people. The current government of Israel is an inevitably unsustainable arrangement propped up by allied governments. It's a very young government (historically speaking) that is facing a demographic time bomb (both from the birth rates of its immediate neighbors as well as from libertarian-trending, more free market oriented younger generations living under the states allied to it).
Israel isn't America. Nor should you want it to be (unless you also want to pay 60% of your income to the government as well). You don't want what it takes for US airports to be like Israel's airports... nor is what Israel's government does necessary for US airports to be like that.
My beef with TSA is that it is not geared toward actual security, as is the aviation security apparatus in Israel. If TSA were more efficient, concentrating on actual security instead of Kabuki security, a/k/a dog and pony show, I think many of us would be more tolerant of its procedures. But the shoes off, toiletries in freedom bags, etc., demonstrate a lack of imagination in protecting against terrorist threats.